Evidence of oribatid mite detritivory in Antarctica during the late Paleozoic and Mesozoic

Journal of Paleontology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1146-1153

  Kellogg, Derek W ^a   Taylor, Edith L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETRITIVORY; FOSSIL RECORD; MESOZOIC; MITE; PALEOZOIC; PEAT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRACE FOSSIL;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; WORLD;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ORIBATIDA;

EID: 7544246682     PISSN: 00223360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s002233600004395x     Document Type: Article

References (78)

1. ASH, S. 2000. Evidence of oribatid mite herbivory in the stem of a Late Triassic tree fern from Arizona. Journal of Paleontology, 74(6):1065-1071.
2. BADEJO, M. A. 1990. Seasonal abundance of soil mites (Acarina) in two contrasting environments. Biotropica, 22:382-390.
3. BAGNOLI, G., G. CARNEVALE, AND F. BERNINI. 2000. Ordovician goes on land. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 32(7):A-14.
4. BAL, L. 1970. Morphological investigation in two moder-humus profiles and the role of the soil fauna in their genesis. Geoderma, 4:5-36.
5. BANKS, H. P., AND B. J. COLTHART. 1993. Plant-animal-fungal interactions in Early Devonian trimerophytes from Gaspé, Canada. American Journal of Botany, 80:992-1001.
6. BARRETT, P. J., AND D. H. ELLIOT. 1973. Reconnaissance geologic map of the Buckley Island Quadrangle, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. U.S. Geological Survey Antarctic Geologic Map, A-3.
7. BARRETT, P. J., D. H. ELLIOT, AND J. F. LINDSAY. 1986. The Beacon Supergroup (Devonian-Triassic) and Ferrar Group (Jurassic) in the Beardmore Glacier Area, Antarctica, p. 339-428. In M. D. Turner and J. D. Splettstoesser (eds.), Geology of the Central Transantarctic Mountains (Antarctic Research Series, 36, paper 14). American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.
8. BEHAN-PELLETIER, V. M., AND B. BISSETT. 1994. Oribatida of Canadian peatlands. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 169:73-88.
9. BERLESE, A. 1923. Centuria sesta di Acari nuovi. Redia, 15:237-262.
10. BRONGNIART, A. 1828. Prodrome d'une histoire d'un végétaux fossiles. Dictionnaire Sci. Nat., 57:16-212.
11. BRUES, C. T. 1936. Evidence of insect activity preserved in fossil wood. Journal of Paleontology, 10:637-643.
12. BULANOVA-ZACHVATKINA, Y. M. 1974. A new genus of mite (Acariformes, Oribatei) from the Upper Cretaceous of Taymyr. Paleontological Journal, 8:247-250.
13. CHALONER, W. G., A. C. SCOTT, AND J. STEPHENSON. 1991. Fossil evidence for plant-arthropod interactions in the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 333B:177-186.
14. CICHAN, M. A., AND T. N. TAYLOR. 1982. Wood-borings in Premnoxylon: Plant-animal interactions in the Carboniferous. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 39:123-127.
15. COLLINSON, J. W. 1997. Paleoclimate of Permo-Triassic Antarctica, p. 1028-1034. In C. A. Ricci (ed.), The Antarctic Region: Geological Evolution and Processes. Terra Antartica Publication, Siena, Italy.
16. CROSSLEY, D. A. JR. 1970. Roles of microflora and fauna in soil systems, p. 30-35. In Pesticides in the Soil: Ecology, Degradation and Movement (International Symposium on Pesticides in the Soil, 25-27 February 1970, Michigan State University). East Lansing.
17. CROSSLEY, D. A. JR., AND K. K. BOHNSACK. 1960. Long-term ecological study in the Oak Ridge area: III. The oribatid mite fauna in pine litter. Ecology, 41:628-638.
18. EDWARDS, D., P A. SELDEN, J. B. RICHARDSON, AND L. AXE. 1995. Coprolites as evidence for plant-animal interactions in Siluro-Devonian terrestrial ecosystems. Nature, 377:329-331.
19. ELLIOT, D. H., R. J. FLECK, AND R. J. SUTTER. 1985. Potassium-argon age determination of Ferrar Group rocks, central Transantarctic Mountains, p. 197-224. In M. D. Turner and J. F. Splettstoesser (eds.), Geology of the Central Transantarctic Mountains (Antarctic Research Series, 36, no. 10). American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.
20. EWING, H. E. 1917. A synopsis of the genera of beetle mites with special reference to the North American fauna. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 10:117-132.
21. FARABEE, M. J., E. L. TAYLOR, AND T. N. TAYLOR. 1990. Correlation of Permian and Triassic palynomorph assemblages from the central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 65:257-265.
22. FARABEE, M. J., E. L. TAYLOR, AND T. N. TAYLOR. 1991. Late Permian palynomorphs from the Buckley Formation, central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 69: 353-368.
23. GALTIER, J., AND T. L. PHILLIPS. 1999. The acetate peel technique, p. 67-70. In T. P. Jones and N. P. Rowe (eds.), Fossil Plants and Spores: Modern Techniques. Geological Society, London.
24. GOTH, K., AND V. WILDE. 1992. Fraßpuren in permischen Hölzern aus der Wetterau. Senckenbergiana Lethaea, 72:1-6.
25. GRUNOW, A. M. 1999. Gondwana events and palaeogeography: A palaeomagnetic review. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 28(1):53-69.
26. HAARLØV, N. 1967. Arthropoda (Acarina, Diptera) from subfossil layers in West Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland, 184:1-17.
27. HAMMER, W. R. 1987. Paleoecology and phylogeny of the Trematosauridae, p. 73-83. In G. D. McKenzie (ed.), Gondwana Six: Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Paleontology. American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.
28. HANSEN, R. A. 2000. Effects of habitat complexity and composition on a diverse litter microarthropod assemblage. Ecology, 84:1120-1132.
29. HIRST, S. 1923. On some arachnid remains from the Old Red Sandstone (Rhynie Chert bed, Aberdeenshire). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 9, 12:455-474.
30. JARZEMBOWSKI, E. A. 1990. A boring beetle from the Wealden of the Weald, p. 373-376. in A. J. Boucot (ed.), Evolutionary Paleobiology of Behavior and Coevolution. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
31. JURASKY, K. A. 1932. Frassgänge und Koprolithen eines Nagekäfers in liassischer Steinkohle. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, 84:656-657.
32. KEVAN, D. K. M. 1962. Soil Animals. H. F. and G. Witherby, London, 244 p.
33. KEVAN, P. G., W. G. CHALONER, AND D. B. O. SAVILE. 1975. Interrelationships of early terrestrial arthropods and plants. Palaeontology. 18: 391-417.
34. KRIVOLUTSKY, D. A., AND A. YA. DRUK. 1986. Fossil oribatid mites. Annual Review of Entomology, 31:533-545.
35. KRIVOLUTSKY, D. A., AND N. A. RYABININ. 1976. Oribatid mites in Siberian and Far East amber. Doklady Akademiia Nauk SSSR, 230: 945-948. (In Russian)
36. LABANDEIRA, C. C. 1998. Early history of arthropod and vascular plant associations. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 26:329-77.
37. LABANDEIRA, C. C., T. L. PHILLIPS, AND R. A. NORTON. 1997. Oribatid mites and the decomposition of plant tissues in Paleozoic coal-swamp forests. Palaios, 12:319-353.
38. LAVELLE, P. 1997. Faunal activities and soil processes: adaptive strategies that determine ecosystem function. Advances in Ecological Research, 27:93-132.
39. LAVELLE, P., C. LATTAUD, D. TRIGO, AND I. BAROIS. 1994. Mutualism and biodiversity in soils. Plant and Soil. 170:23-33.
40. LINCK, O. 1949. Fossile Bohrgänge (Anobichnium simile n.g. n.sp.) an einem Keuperholz. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, 90B:180-185.
41. LUXTON, M. 1972. Studies on the oribatid mites of a Danish beech wood soil. Pedobiologia, 12:434-463.
42. MACFAYDEN, A. 1964. Energy flow in ecosystems and its exploitation by grazing, p. 3-20. In D. J. Crisp (ed.), Grazing in Terrestrial and Marine Environments (A symposium of the British Ecological Society, Bangor, 11-14 April 1962). Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, U.K.
43. nd National Symposium on Radioecology, University of Michigan). U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C.
44. MCLOUGHLIN, S. 1994a. Late Permian plant megafossils from the Bowen Basin, Queensland, Australia: Part 2. Palaeontographica, Abt. B, 231: 1-29.
45. MCLOUGHLIN, S. 1994b. Late Permian megafossils from the Bowen Basin, Queensland, Australia: Part 3. Palaeontographica, Abt. B, 231:31-62.
46. MILLAY, M. A., AND T. N. TAYLOR. 1990. New fern stems from the Triassic of Antarctica. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 62:41-64.
47. NIEDBALA, W. 1986. Systematics of Phthiracaroidea (Oribatida, Euptyctima). Acarologia, 27(1):61-84.
48. NIEDBALA, W. 1991. Elements of zoogeography, p. 280-290. In W. Niedbala, Phthiracaroidea (Acari, Oribatida). Elsevier, New York.
49. NORTON, R. A. 1980. Observations on phoresy by oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatei). International Journal of Acarology, 6:121-130.
50. NORTON, R. A., P. M. BONAMO, J. D. GRIERSON, AND W. A. SHEAR. 1988. Oribatid mite fossils from a terrestrial Devonian deposit near Gilboa, New York. Journal of Paleontology, 62:259-269.
51. PERTY, M. 1839. Isis. Jena, 23 Hft. 11, 12: column 847.
52. PLUMSTEAD, E. M. 1963. The influence of plants and environment on the developing animal life of Karoo times. South African Journal of Science, 59:147-152.
53. 1 d'un moder sous pin sylvestre. Revue d'Écologie et de Biologie du Sol, 21:161-187.
54. POWELL, C. MCA., AND Z. X. LI. 1994. Reconstruction of the Panthalassan margin of Gondwanaland, p. 5-9. In J. J. Veevers and C. McA. Powell (eds.), Permian-Triassic Pangean Basins and Foldbelts Along the Panthalassan Margin of Gondwanaland. Geological Society of America Memoir, 184.
55. REX, G. M., AND J. GALTIER. 1986. Sur l'évidence d'interactions animal-végétal dans le Carbonifère inférieur français. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris, série II-Sciences de la Terre, 303: 1623-1626.
56. SAICHUAE, P., U. GERSON, AND Y. HENIS. 1972. Observations on the feeding and life history of the mite Nothrus viciliatus (Koch). Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 4:155-164.
57. SAIKI, K., AND Y. YOSHIDA. 1999. A new bennettitalean trunk with unilacunar five-trace nodal structure from the Upper Cretaceous of Hokkaido, Japan. American Journal of Botany, 86:326-332.
58. SCOTT, A. C., AND T. N. TAYLOR. 1983. Plant/animal interactions during the Upper Carboniferous. Botanical Review, 49:259-307.
59. SEWARD, A. C. 1924. On a new species of Tempskya from Montana: Tempskya skoltoni, sp. nov. Annals of Botany, 38:485-507.
60. SHARMA, B. D., AND R. HARSH. 1989. Activities of phytophagous arthropods (wood borers) on extinct plants from the Mesozoic of the Rajmahal Hills, India. Bionature, 9(1):29-34.
61. SHEAR, W. A. 1991. The early development of terrestrial ecosystems. Nature, 351:283-289.
62. SHEAR, W. A., AND P. A. SELDEN. 2001. Rustling in the undergrowth: Animals in early terrestrial ecosystems, p. 29-51. In P. G. Gensel and D. Edwards (eds.), Plants Invade the Land: Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives. Columbia University Press, New York.
63. SHEREEF, G. M. 1971. Observations on the feeding, reproduction and faeces obtained from oribatids fed on different species of Penicillium and Aspergillus. Annales de Zoologie et Écologie Animale, Supplement (IV Colloquium Pédobiologie), 165-176.
64. SIEPEL, H. 1994. Life-history tactics of soil microarthropods. Biology of Fertile Soils, 18:263-278.
65. STANTON, N. L. 1979. Patterns of species diversity in temperate and tropical litter mites. Ecology, 60:295-304.
66. STUBBLEFIELD, S. P., AND T. N. TAYLOR. 1986. Wood decay in silicified gymnosperms from Antarctica. Botanical Gazette, 147:116-125.
67. TAYLOR, E. L., T. N. TAYLOR, AND J. W. COLLINSON. 1989. Depositional setting and paleobotany of Permian and Triassic permineralized peat from the central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. International Journal of Coal Geology, 12:657-679.
68. TAYLOR, E. L., T. N. TAYLOR, AND N. R. CÚNEO. 2000. Permian and Triassic high latitude paleoclimates: evidence from fossil biotas, p. 321-350. In B. T. Huber, K. G. MacLeod, and S. L. Wing (eds.), Warm Climates in Earth History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
69. TIDWELL, W. D., AND S. R. ASH. 1990. On the Upper Jurassic stem Hermanophyton and its species from Colorado and Utah, USA. Palaeontographica, Abt. B, 128:77-92.
70. TIDWELL, W. D., AND A. C. ROZEFELDS. 1991. Yulebacaulis normanii gen. et. sp. nov., a new fossil tree fern from southeastern Queensland, Australia. Australian Systematic Botany, 4:421-432.
71. TOMESCU, A. M. F., G. W. ROTHWELL, AND G. MAPES. 2001. Lyginopteris royalii sp. nov. from the Upper Mississippian of North America. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 116:159-173.
72. WALKER, M. V. 1938. Evidence of Triassic insects in the Petrified Forest National Monument, Arizona. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 85:137-141.
73. WALLWORK, J. A. 1967. Acari, p. 363-395. In A. Burges and F. Raw (eds.), Soil Biology. Academic Press, London.
74. WALLWORK, J. A. 1976. The Distribution and Diversity of Soil Fauna. Academic Press, London, p. 243-273.
75. WEAVER, L., S. MCLOUGHLIN, AND A. N. DRINNAN. 1997. Fossil woods from the Upper Permian Bainmedart Coal Measures, northern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica. Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics, 16:655-676.
76. YAO, X., T. N. TAYLOR, AND E. L. TAYLOR. 1991. Silicified dipterid ferns from the Jurassic of Antarctica. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 67:353-362.
77. ZAVADA, M. S., AND M. T. MENTIS. 1992. Plant-animal interaction: The effect of Permian megaherbivores on the glossopterid flora. American Midland Naturalist, 127:1-2.
78. ZHOU, A., AND B. ZHANG. 1989. Sideritic Protocupressinoxylon with insect borings and frass from the Middle Jurassic, Henan, China. Review of Paleobotany and Palynology, 59:133-143.